The symposium "Space 2.0: Interplanetary Economics: resources from space" is dedicated to how society can benefit from resources from outer space and the planets. Specialists from the US, UK, Belgium and the Netherlands will discuss examples from space-based solar energy and asteroid mining, to commercial exploration of the Moon and Mars and the use of the Google Lunar X prize to catalyze the commercial usage of the Moon. The symposium is being organized by the Dutch chapter of the Planetary Society , Space Horizon and VU University Amsterdam and takes place in room WN-KC-159 of the VU University Amsterdam on friday April 3 2009.